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Describes the history, people, politics, culture, major cities, and other aspects of Vietnam

Library:

9780875184227 | Dillon Pr, February 1, 1990, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Describes the history, people, politics, culture, major cities, and other aspects of Vietnam

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When Brandon and Wayne try to take revenge on a rookie mounted policeman who has been teasing them, their practical joke backfires and causes their favorite horse Skyjacker to be kicked off the force for cowardice.

Hardcover:

9780805016581 | Henry Holt & Co, May 1, 1991, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Brandon and Wayne get revenge on rookie Houston Mounted Policeman Chris Parker by placing a burr under his mount Skyjacker's saddle, but Chris' arm breaks, Skyjacker is in trouble, and the boys must help him somehow

Paperback:

9781589804371 | Pelican Pub Co Inc, September 1, 2006, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: When Brandon and Wayne try to take revenge on a rookie mounted policeman who has been teasing them, their practical joke backfires and causes their favorite horse Skyjacker to be kicked off the force for cowardice.

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A story based on a Vietnamese creation tale about three one-legged ducks who search for a second leg explains why ducks sleep on one leg.
By Sherry Garland, Mou-Sen (illustrator), Jean Tseng and Mou-Sien Tseng (illustrator)

School and Library:

9780590456975 | Scholastic, February 1, 1993, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A Vietnamese folktale explaining the phenomenon of ducks' sleeping on one leg

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Product Description: Sixteen-year-old Danny Vo is enmeshed in two worlds—his Houston high school and his Vietnamese home life. He’s finally caught the eye of beautiful blond Tiffany Marie, only to find out that her brother is a white supremacist. And his life gets even more complicated when his cousin Sang Le comes to live with Danny’s family after spending years in a reeducation camp in Vietnam...read more

Hardcover:

9780152735302 | Harcourt Childrens Books, October 1, 1993, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Danny Vo, a Vietnamese boy, must reconcile his American school, his traditional homelife, his concern for his cousin, a gang member, and his love for a girl with a racist brother

Paperback:

9780152735326 | Houghton Mifflin, October 1, 1993, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Danny Vo, a Vietnamese boy, must reconcile his American school, his traditional homelife, his concern for his cousin, a gang member, and his love for a girl with a racist brother

Miscellaneous:

9780547416830 | Houghton Mifflin, October 31, 1993, cover price $6.99

Prebinding:

9781439553572 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, September 18, 2008), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Sixteen-year-old Danny Vo is enmeshed in two worlds—his Houston high school and his Vietnamese home life.

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Product Description: When American soldiers departed Vietnam, many left children behind—like seventeen-year-old Loi, whose fellow villagers ostracize her because she is con-lai, a half-breed and a reminder of her country’s tragic civil war. Only Khai, a young buffalo tender, shows her love and respect...read more

Hardcover:

9780152771072 | Harcourt Childrens Books, April 1, 1992, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Shunned and mistreated because of her mixed heritage and determined to avoid an arranged marriage, seventeen-year-old Loi runs away to Ho Chi Minh City with the hope that she and the boy she loves will be able to go to the United States to find her American father.

Paperback:

9780152000981 | Reissue edition (Houghton Mifflin, March 1, 1994), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Shunned and mistreated because of her mixed heritage, and determined to avoid an arranged marriage, seventeen-year-old Loi runs away to Ho Chi Minh City with the hope that she and the boy she loves will be able to go to the United States to find her American father.
9789990852974 | Reissue edition (Gary Dean Gullickson, March 1, 1994), cover price $0.02

Reinforced:

9780606067515 | Demco Media, March 1, 1994, cover price $14.10 | About this edition: Shunned and mistreated because of her mixed heritage, and determined to avoid an arranged marriage, seventeen-year-old Loi runs away to Ho Chi Minh City with the hope that she and the boy she loves will be able to go to the United States to find her American father.

Prebinding:

9781439553602 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, September 18, 2008), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: When American soldiers departed Vietnam, many left children behind—like seventeen-year-old Loi, whose fellow villagers ostracize her because she is con-lai, a half-breed and a reminder of her country’s tragic civil war.
9780785735533 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $17.15 | About this edition: Shunned and mistreated because of her mixed heritage, and determined to avoid an arranged marriage, seventeen-year-old Loi runs away to Ho Chi Minh City with the hope that she and the boy she loves will be able to go to the United States to find her American father.

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Saddened and puzzled by the suicide of a teenage neighbor, a small boy remembers the teenager playing basketball alone, feeding pigeons, and caring for a stray dog--and is sorry he did not try to make friends with him.
By Sherry Garland and Sheldon Greenberg (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780395696866 | Ticknor & Fields, September 1, 1994, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: An observer laments the lonely life of a teenage suicide whose neighbors didn't even know his name.

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Two children participate in efforts to restore coastal sand dunes, and the plant and animal life they harbor, after a violent summer storm sweeps the dunes away. By the author of The Lotus Seed.
By Sherry Garland and Robert J. Lee (illustrator)

School and Library:

9780152824921 | Houghton Mifflin, April 1, 1995, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: After a winter storm destroys the sand dunes that provide a home for plants and animals, a beach community bands together to restore the dunes

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While on a cruise with his family, twelve-year-old Dusty encounters the ghost of an Arawak Indian girl through whom he comes to terms with his fears (view table of contents)

Paperback:

9780152006624 | Harcourt Childrens Books, November 1, 1995, cover price $6.00 | About this edition: While on a cruise with his family, twelve-year-old Dusty encounters the ghost of an Arawak Indian girl through whom he comes to terms with his fears

School and Library:

9780152006631 | Harcourt Childrens Books, November 1, 1995, cover price $11.00 | About this edition: While on a cruise with his family, twelve-year-old Dusty encounters the ghost of an Arawak Indian girl through whom he comes to terms with his fears

Reinforced:

9780606091220 | Demco Media, November 1, 1995, cover price $13.43 | About this edition: While on a cruise with his family, twelve-year-old Dusty encounters the ghost of an Arawak Indian girl through whom he comes to terms with his fears

Prebinding:

9780613005722 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $14.35 | About this edition: While on a cruise with his family, twelve-year-old Dusty encounters the ghost of an Arawak Indian girl through whom he comes to terms with his fears

A young Vietnamese girl saves a lotus seed and carries it with her everywhere to remember a brave emperor and the homeland that she has to flee
By Sherry Garland and Tatsuro Kiuchi (illustrator)

Reinforced:

9780606115810 | Reprint edition (Demco Media, March 1, 1997), cover price $15.83 | also contains The Lotus Seed | About this edition: A young Vietnamese girl saves a lotus seed and carries it with her everywhere to remember a brave emperor and the homeland that she has to flee

Product Description: Caroline Long discovers the family she never knew existed when she runs away and joins Shawnee Sam’s Wild West Extravaganza. “The Wild West show milieu and the effect it has on the Indians who work in it ring true, and readers will empathize with the eternal struggle of a teenager trying to find her place in the world...read more

Paperback:

9780152006525, titled "The Last Rainmaker" | Harcourt Childrens Books, May 1, 1997, cover price $6.00 | About this edition: Abandoned by her father, thirteen-year-old Caroline runs away to join Shawnee Sam's Wild West Extravaganza in the hope of learning more about her mother, a performer who died in childbirth and whose origins have been kept a secret from Caroline

School and Library:

9780152006495, titled "The Last Rainmaker" | Harcourt Childrens Books, May 1, 1997, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Abandoned by her father, thirteen-year-old Caroline runs away to join Shawnee Sam's Wild West Extravaganza in the hope of learning more about her mother, a performer who died in childbirth and whose origins have been kept a secret from Caroline

Reinforced:

9780606115506, titled "The Last Rainmaker" | Demco Media, May 1, 1997, cover price $13.43 | About this edition: Abandoned by her father, thirteen-year-old Caroline runs away to join Shawnee Sam's Wild West Extravaganza in the hope of learning more about her mother, a performer who died in childbirth and whose origins have been kept a secret from Caroline

Prebinding:

9780613022934 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $13.85 | About this edition: Caroline Long discovers the family she never knew existed when she runs away and joins Shawnee Sam’s Wild West Extravaganza.

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In the journal she receives for her twelfth birthday in 1835, Lucinda Lawrence describes the hardships her family and other residents of the 'Texas colonies' endure when they decide to face the Mexicans in a fight for their freedom.

School and Library:

9780590394666 | Scholastic, September 1, 1998, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: In the journal she receives for her twelfth birthday in 1835, Lucinda Lawrence describes the hardships her family and other residents of the 'Texas colonies' endure when they decide to face the Mexicans in a fight for their freedom.

Provides guidelines and examples on writing for the YA market with profiles of popular genres and current trends, tips on improving writing skills and effective research, and the dos and dont's of contacting publishers (view table of contents)

Paperback:

9780898798579 | Writers Digest Books, September 1, 1998, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Provides guidelines and examples on writing for the YA market with profiles of popular genres and current trends, tips on improving writing skills and effective research, and the dos and dont's of contacting publishers

When the stars hang high in the sky and the coyote howls at the moon, it's time for one little cowboy to rest his sleepy head.
By Sherry Garland and John Kanzler (illustrator)

Paperback:

9780590988315 | Scholastic, October 1, 1998, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: When the stars hang high in the sky and the coyote howls at the moon, it's time for one little cowboy to rest his sleepy head.
9780590988315 | Scholastic, October 1, 1998, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: When the stars hang high in the sky and the coyote howls at the moon, it's time for one little cowboy to rest his sleepy head.

A teenage boy, sent for the summer to relatives in the mountains in order to remove him from gang influences, discovers life's really important values through his unlikely friendship with an economically challenged boy

Paperback:

9780152006594 | Harcourt Childrens Books, October 1, 1996, cover price $6.00 | About this edition: A teenage boy, sent for the summer to relatives in the mountains in order to remove him from gang influences, discovers life's really important values through his unlikely friendship with an economically challenged boy

School and Library:

9780152006617 | Harcourt Childrens Books, October 1, 1996, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: A teenage boy, sent for the summer to relatives in the mountains in order to remove him from gang influences, discovers life's really important values through his unlikely friendship with an economically challenged boy

Reinforced:

9780606161664 | Demco Media, April 1, 1999, cover price $13.81 | About this edition: A teenage boy, sent for the summer to relatives in the mountains in order to remove him from gang influences, discovers life's really important values through his unlikely friendship with an economically challenged boy

Prebinding:

9780613023344 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $15.25 | About this edition: A teenage boy, sent for the summer to relatives in the mountains in order to remove him from gang influences, discovers life's really important values through his unlikely friendship with an economically challenged boy

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Describes pet care, including feeding, grooming, breeding, showing, training, and health issues

Prebinding:

9780613069731 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $17.20 | About this edition: Describes pet care, including feeding, grooming, breeding, showing, training, and health issues

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From the 1500s to the present, different voices and perspectives of men and women--Indian, Mexican, Spanish, Texan, and American--recount the history of the Alamo and its region.
By Sherry Garland and Ronald Himler (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9781589802223 | Pelican Pub Co Inc, March 1, 2004, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: From the 1500s to the present, different voices and perspectives of men and women--Indian, Mexican, Spanish, Texan, and American--recount the history of the Alamo and its region.

School and Library:

9780590988339 | Scholastic, March 1, 2000, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: From the 1500s to the present, different voices and perspectives of men and women--Indian, Mexican, Spanish, Texan, and American--recount the history of the Alamo and its region

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Conscripted into the Mexican Army, fifteen-year-old Lorenzo Bonifacio makes some unexpected alliances and learns some harsh truths about General Santa Ana as the troops move toward the Battle of the Alamo.

School and Library:

9780152017446 | Houghton Mifflin, September 1, 2001, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Conscripted into the Mexican Army, fifteen-year-old Lorenzo Bonifacio makes some unexpected alliances and learns some harsh truths about General Santa Ana as the troops move toward the Battle of the Alamo.

The 1845-1846 diary of thirteen-year-old Maria, servant to the wealthy Spanish family which took her in when her Indian mother died.

Hardcover:

9780439088206 | Scholastic, April 1, 2001, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: The 1845-1846 diary of thirteen-year-old Maria, servant to the wealthy Spanish family which took her in when her Indian mother died.

Reinforced:

9780606228107 | Demco Media, February 1, 2002, cover price $18.94

A Vietnamese-American boy spends a day with his father on his shrimp boat, listening as he describes how his own father fishes on the South China Sea.

Paperback:

9780590478687, titled "My Father's Boat" | Reprint edition (Scholastic, June 1, 2002), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: A Vietnamese-American boy spends a day with his father on his shrimp boat, listening as he describes how his own father fishes on the South China Sea.

School and Library:

9780590478670, titled "My Father's Boat" | Scholastic, May 1, 1998, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A Vietnamese American and his father spend the day on their shrimp boat and dream about the grandfather who owns his own boat and makes his livelihood the same way on the other side of the globe

Reinforced:

9780606259521, titled "My Father's Boat" | Demco Media, December 1, 2002, cover price $14.26 | About this edition: A Vietnamese-American boy spends a day with his father on his shrimp boat, listening as he describes how his own father fishes on the South China Sea.

Prebinding:

9780613538435, titled "My Father's Boat" | Turtleback Books, March 1, 2000, cover price $14.65 | About this edition: A Vietnamese-American boy spends a day with his father on his shrimp boat, listening as he describes how his own father fishes on the South China Sea.

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Realizing that his future lies in owning land, not just being free, a young man raised as a slave becomes a buffalo soldier--a member of an all-black cavalry regiment formed to protect white settlers from Indians, bandits, and outlaws, and that later fought in the Spanish American War. Includes historical note.Realizing that his future lies in owning land, not just being free, a young man raised as a slave becomes a buffalo soldier--a member of an all-black cavalry regiment formed to protect white settlers from Indians, bandits, and outlaws.
By Sherry Garland and Ronald Himler (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9781589803916 | Pelican Pub Co Inc, October 1, 2006, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Realizing that his future lies in owning land, not just being free, a young man raised as a slave becomes a buffalo soldier--a member of an all-black cavalry regiment formed to protect white settlers from Indians, bandits, and outlaws, and that later fought in the Spanish American War.

Product Description: An Indian girl struggles to survive a brutal time of change as Spaniards begin their conquest of indigenous cultures. In this beautifully written novel, Sherry Garland brings the late 1500s to life, chronicling the virtual extinction of the native Indio and the birth of the Mexican people...read more

Hardcover:

9780152386313 | Gulliver Books, May 1, 1995, cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Thirteen-year-old Ipa struggles to survive a brutal time of change as the Spanish begin the conquest of the native people along the Texas border

Paperback:

9780152000219 | Houghton Mifflin, May 15, 1995, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Thirteen-year-old Ipa struggles to survive a brutal time of change as the Spanish begin the conquest of the native people along the Texas border

Reinforced:

9780606094665 | Demco Media, May 1, 1995, cover price $11.10 | About this edition: Thirteen-year-old Ipa struggles to survive a brutal time of change as the Spanish begin the conquest of the native people along the Texas border

Prebinding:

9781435244207 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 28, 2008), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: An Indian girl struggles to survive a brutal time of change as Spaniards begin their conquest of indigenous cultures.
9780785767435 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Thirteen-year-old Ipa struggles to survive a brutal time of change as the Spanish begin the conquest of the native people along the Texas border

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

Hardcover:

9780152741709 | Harcourt Childrens Books, April 1, 1993, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Thirteen-year-old Alyssa has not spoken since seeing her parents die in a hurricane, and now, three years later, another storm threatens the home she shares with her grandfather on Galveston Island.

Paperback:

9780152000165 | Sandpiper, September 1, 1995, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Thirteen-year-old Alyssa has not spoken since seeing her parents die in a hurricane, and now, three years later, another storm threatens the home she shares with her grandfather on Galveston Island.

Reinforced:

9780606081641 | Demco Media, September 1, 1995, cover price $14.55 | About this edition: Thirteen-year-old Alyssa has not spoken since seeing her parents die in a hurricane, and now, three years later, another storm threatens the home she shares with her grandfather on Galveston Island.

Prebinding:

9781439564141 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, October 15, 2008), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.
9780785793045 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $17.20 | About this edition: Thirteen-year-old Alyssa has not spoken since seeing her parents die in a hurricane, and now, three years later, another storm threatens the home she shares with her grandfather on Galveston Island.

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An illustrated collection of Vietnamese folktales with explantory notes following each story.

Hardcover:

9781455617098 | Reprint edition (Pelican Pub Co Inc, September 14, 2012), cover price $16.99

School and Library:

9780152242008 | Harcourt Childrens Books, September 1, 2001, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: An illustrated collection of Vietnamese folktales with explantory notes following each story.

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By Julie Dupre Buckner (illustrator) and Sherry Garland

Hardcover:

9781455619610 | Pelican Pub Co Inc, January 26, 2016, cover price $17.99

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